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Corn prices stay above $4, despite Chinese refusal

2013-12-23 03:20:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Corn futures prices remain above $4 despite the good U.S. crop and reports that U.S. corn exports are being turned away by China. read more

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M&S apology over alcohol refusal

2013-12-22 23:40:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Marks & Spencer has apologised after a Muslim member of staff refused to serve a customer trying to buy alcohol.

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Canada refusal protect polar bears comes under scrutiny

2013-11-21 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Canada's closest allies and neighbours have called for a formal investigation into the government's refusal to offer full protection to polar bears threatened with extinction because of climate change. The secretariat of the Central Environmental Commission (CEC) said this week there were "central open questions" about Canada's decision to offer only limited protection to polar bears. The CEC, which was set up by America, Canada, and Mexico under the North America free trade agreement, went on...

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Australia: Al Gore attacks Tony Abbott's refusal to link bushfires with climate change

2013-10-24 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AAP: Tony Abbott's insistence that bushfires aren't linked to climate change is like the tobacco industry claiming smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, Nobel laureate Al Gore says. In light of the New South Wales bushfire disaster, the former US vice-president says the prime minister's comment that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change reminds him of politicians in the US who received support from tobacco companies, and who then publicly argued the companies'...

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